“We built our reputation with customers by consistently delivering innovative, highly scalable and affordable hybrid cloud storage products,” said Michael Tso, co-founder and CEO, Cloudian. “HyperStore 4.0 sets Cloudian apart once again by offering a truly enterprise-ready solution that will help users derive greater business value from their cloud storage, regardless of file size.”

HyperStore supports any existing S3 application and allows customer choice in deploying applications and storage on- and off-premise in the cloud. The new release adds NFS support, seamless dynamic data tiering for easy data movement to and from the cloud, erasure coding for deep archive efficiency and flexible redundancy, portability, and multi-tenancy, which gives role-based access to system and group administrators and users. It supports quotas, reporting, and billing at the group level.

“Open hybrid cloud storage is an important emerging market in the enterprise and Cloudian is well positioned to address it,” said Simon Robinson, research vice president – Storage at 451 Research. “Cloudian HyperStore is a solid approach aimed at benefiting a wide variety of customers by fulfilling their data management needs and mixed workload requirements.”